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I am not. In fact, England (and Australia) both have an overall rate of violent crime--murder, battery, robbery, forcible rape--that's quite comparable to the US. If you remove murder from the equation entirely, then England and Australia appear to have more violent crime than the US. Their crime is less lethal, but they're have more of it. Despite the fact that, e.g. England bans carrying pocket knives for fear of knife crime. But both countries have very similar problems to the US, although Australia seems to have a mostly functional NHS, despite the constant attempts to cut funding. (England's NHS is far, far less functional now than it was.)
If England and Australia were to adjust their system of governance and taxation to address the underlying issues, then it's likely that they'd have far less violent crime.
So you agree that guns are the problem.
He also accidentally admitted that private gun ownership does nothing to prevent violent crime, given that "violent crime rates are comparable" between America and countries that don't let insane death cults write their laws.
He tried to walk it back saying "actually the other countries are worse" but a quick look at the figures show they're all within a few percent for things like rape and assault, until you get to America with its 400% higher homicide rate.
Some of that isn't even well hidden, with "robbery" being included in his list of violent crimes, despite the low number of people killed during property thefts in Australia and the U.K.